Andreessen's counter-argument to lean really needs to be put out there. As in all trends, people take a popular concept like lean too far and adopt it by defaul

Andreessen's counter-argument to lean really needs to be put out there. As in all trends, people take a popular concept like lean too far and adopt it by default (instead of by its fundamental merits). Of course lean has worked well. Especially when it was the hungry rat or roach to the 90s dinosaur. But people are getting complacent in this success, and increasingly chicken-shit to do something really difficult and time-consuming. And there are a lot of skittish roaches and rats running around the tech scene now. The startups types just out of college saw Social Network and they think its easy, ha ha. Time for a new kind of beast to rise, a bigger one that does not suffer from startup-ADD and requires a lot more intellectual and financial resources to grow. I've been working on some hellish shit, pushing myself to the very limit of what I can do after 15 years of programming. A lot of people won't touch difficult now. But difficult or not-on-trend or unseen advantage is what good investing is all about. It seemed risky to people with self-programmed assumptions to do lean in the early-to-mid-naughts. It seems risky to do a big beast now. But investing is finding some edge, that is one great way to increase your chances to win.